hypeatei

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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Part of building more is getting government (mostly) out of it so that things like zoning laws don't hamper new development. Obviously that is very hard to do at a local level when incumbent homeowners' housing values would be cut
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Not giving them money is a start, and for alternatives I'd recommend finding another taxi service. Either the traditional yellow cabs or another private company/single owner-operator ones (like the ones that drive black SUVs/
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Doesn't work for who? If you stop using their service then you're not subject to getting your data sold by them because that data simply won't exist. There is no inherent need to get tech companies to "stop advertising&q
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Just one more piece of regulation, that will fix it! Voting with your wallet is better. No one is forcing you to use Uber, get more creative and stop using men with guns to impose <current hot take because I'm pissed> onto ever
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
At the risk of sounding like an LLM, you're absolutely right! It would be stupid not to kowtow to the current admin given how much business Microsoft does with the US government. The pendulum will swing back, guarantee it.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Yes, that's how markets work. It seems like Microsoft understands it well or we'd be seeing mass exodus from Office products. No price increases for three years doesn't seem too bad, IMO. > And maybe they make it play a 30
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
> They can set whatever price they want Then why don't they? I think it's precisely because they don't want anyone "investing significant resources into competing products" There's a line for everyone and cu
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
"is there any reason to use Office other than <literally every profession using it> ?" No, I don't think so. I either sail the high seas or subscribe for a month or two when job searching then toss it when I'm don
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
It takes one OPSEC slip up for someone to link a wallet address to you. So yes, your transactions being public doesn't matter as long as you are cognizant of that 24/7 365 days a year.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
An integrity check is better than nothing, but yes it says nothing about its authenticity.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
And compare it against what? EDIT: nevermind, I see that it has the md5 in a text file here: http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/release/
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
The site doesn't have HTTPS and there doesn't seem to be any mention of signatures on the downloads page. Any way to check it hasn't been MITM'd?
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
How is capitalism to blame for local governments implementing various zoning and building code regulations that make it hard+expensive to build?
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
> Do you also advocate putting a little pot of cash ... Yes, obviously I would support that /s The idea of increasing pay for members of Congress is that we naturally discourage seeking out other forms of building wealth and/or
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
If you're using a reverse proxy, maybe. I don't think it's sufficient to kill a whole version of HTTP because of that.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
That's true, and I think Bernie's idea of having publicly funded elections is great because of that issue.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
The common laborer doesn't control the thing that has a monopoly on violence (the government)
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
I agree, but the substance of the issue is that their pay has remained the same since 2009 at $174k/year (i.e. not kept up with inflation at all) so if we want to discourage corrupt behavior then giving them a proper salary is probably
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
I think the solution is to pay them more, create very strict laws around insider trading, and enforce those laws vigorously. I don't know if that's realistic or not as the electorate has already shown they don't care enough t
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
> However, we are reaching the end of life for the libraries and code that support HTTP/1.1 What libraries are ending support for HTTP/1.1? That seems like an extremely bad move and somewhat contrived.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
When I went to Canada, I talked to someone who said the Canadian government will subsidize trips to the US for certain treatments because it's not available at all in Canada or has insane waiting times. It's one data point, I know
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Or the Tennessee man held in jail for over a month for a Facebook meme post: https://www.wtae.com/article/tennessee-facebook-post-felony-... Note: this occurred in the US and not the UK but it happens here, too.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
You said: > throw fits about things you can’t prove about Trump, What things aren't proven? He's running a meme coin while in office, he started a mobile service provider while in office, he's pardoned crypto fraudsters, a
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
The pardons were completely justified in the face of endless political witch hunts done by Republicans in Congress and the upcoming (at the time) revenge tour from the second Trump administration.
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
Did you miss the part in that article where he paid back all taxes and penalties? We got a real criminal on our hands! Untimely tax payments because you were a drug addict? Straight to jail. The gun charges were the result of a fishing expe
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
What special deals did Burisma get for having Hunter Biden on their board? Nothing about the right wing obsession with Hunter makes me uncomfortable. He has never held public office and was investigated for multiple years (along with his fa
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
> XCancel is an instance of Nitter. > Nitter is a free and open source alternative Twitter front-end focused on privacy and performance. Where is the mission statement about wanting X gone? https://xcancel.com/about
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
How is Hunter Biden writing a letter to an embassy the same as untraceable investments into Trump's meme coin? No deals or payments ever materialized from the Burisma letter or "the big guy" email... while Trump and his famil
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
The fact that it's delisted from most exchanges because of its privacy features; if it was as traceable as Bitcoin, then the feds would allow it. What I see from these links is that it's not fully "traceable" and more e
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by hypeatei 11mo ago
You also have to pay dividends on the shorted shares.

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